Here are classics by Jules Verne, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, et al that are available as eBooks: Free eBooks at Planet eBook - Classic Novels and Literature

They're convenient sometimes, but as I recently moved and just finished shelving my books, I'm appreciating them more.  My classics include Kipling and Dorothy Parker (her ( Read more... )

"Deborah P Kolodji moderates the Southern California Haiku Study Group [and] is also president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and moderates a quarterly speculative poetry workshop ... She has published ... poems of various types, themes, and forms, including haiku ..."  Link: Blogging Along Tobacco Road: Deborah P. Kolodji - Three ( Read more... )

" Haibun (pronounced hai-boon’ and its plural is the same as its singular) is a haiku-related literary genre that consists of taut prose followed by a haiku."

For the rest of this article by poet John Dunphy, go to:   Haibun: union of prose and poetry | Book Blog | STLtoday    His  examples are  beautiful, fantastic, poignant, ...

Poetry: Amaze #16 is now online at:

http://www.amaze-cinquain.com/Issue_16_6-no-2/index.htm

Most are mainstream cinquains, but more than a few have a speculative bent to them ...

Fiction: The Solar Sea by David Lee Summers

Humans settled the Moon and satellites orbiting the Earth were a common sight, but with the abolition of NASA, ... space ( Read more... )

I learned about this interesting website via a listserve I belong to (Thanks, Barbara).  It's a site of the week: Site of the week: Book View Cafe | Books | guardian.co.uk

"Launched on Saturday by a group of published writers - including the wonderful Ursula Le Guin - it describes itself as a new approach to publishing made possible by the internet ( Read more... )

The Science Fiction Poetry Society is sponsoring an Online Halloween Poetry
reading at www.sfpoetry.com/halloween.html. Connect with the
spirit--and the spirits-of the season with two breath-catching Edgar
Allen Poe classics read by Stephen M. Wilson. Bury yourself even
deeper into this dark night with poems from the following
bone-stirring poets-but ( Read more... )

Dwarf Stars is published annually by the Science Fiction Poetry Association in order to recognize quality short poetry on sf/fantasy/horror/science/technological/surreal themes.  The membership votes on their favorite from the anthology and the Dwarf Stars Award winning poem is sent to the Nebula Showcase anthology editor for possible inclusion.  ( Read more... )

"Teri Santitoro, editor of Scifaikuest magazine, has published plenty of her own poetry, as well as editing poetry anthologies. Her love of minimalist sci-fi poetry is infectious. The quality of her work is outstanding.

You can find work by Santitoro at The Genre Mall (one of my favorite spots to shop for speculative poetry). Scifaistew is a very ( Read more... )